-W.jJ0FZMr a., k-s-f.. Y xmmltf. TP-ifrJ.-in-nB .iitlm -SnnnWWi U J ttJOt?ZWtz tTTxCJSf 'WSKWKSGS rgv-gfr- -JfrKltavsnnntlMlBS? ai 4ViV 1 7 r,?T r . Ci09i irW Bi ": . - - WMTOl:wiF1P5Ktp;TlfVB(nmmmnw. -mmMTS-iK? nwnmmnnni m n. m nmv .nw-n nwa smbbbj. sanM vbh hi - nasi ..- ' iiaii'iiHwn nmnmminnWn. v wi ; a - .: v. r nmmni m. nwnmmnnnnw- v -nam sisihiba jfl vr i- i - - v .. i a v .h i mh :b - - r ssai "y rtr1 shi .Bev" vt hi i f '? hi v. -v ,- nannnv . bsbw nnnnnnnmanv ar an n,FiTf .TTE-A.iaii"5r STXIBSCIEeHFTIOIN- $2.00SEVENTH YEAit.ZDVvRIEIETaiE 3c ZHTLL,AT .THE JDLD STAND,Will in the Future as in the Past, keep a full supply ofOffcnnrccnnrrarcCLOTHING, HATS AND CAPS.Also, Qneensware, Hour, Feed, Stoneware, Confectioneries, Cigars and Totaco.A Liberal share of the Public Patronage is Solicited.COME AND SEE US. WE WILL TRY AND MAKE IT FOR YCUR INTEREST TO COME AGAIN.WA-KBENEYWHOLESALEW. S. HARRISON, Proprietor.Bologna Sausage & Pressed Corn Beef a Specialty.Th Trad Supplied. BestKELLEY &AGENTSBuekeye Reaper and Mower,Keystone Corn Planters, Horse Rakes, Weir & Deere's Plowsand Cultivators, Springfield Superior Grain Drills,CEMENT, LIME and PLASTER PARIS,Shelf and Heavy Hardware, Iron, Steel and Glass,PLOW AND WAGON-WOOD STOCK,Franklin Street,THE LOW-PRICE STORE."WO-ITIEEROILS, PAINTS, BRUSHES,And the usual line of goods found in a first-classWe can and do meet anybody's prices inWestern Kansas, both"WHOLESALE .A. 3XT ID RETAIL.We furnish SULPHUR at bed-rock prices. COAL OIL wehave bought 'way down, and on five-gallon lots will makegreat reductions.QROpEEIBS.A full line of staple and fancy Groceries have been added toour stock. Those who buy of us wiU get strictly good goodsat low prices.FLOTJE;.. We have a select stock at prices which defy competition.Don't take our word for it, but come and see.investigation of our goods is A(iNm & GMMnnnrcwnrcIJ UIIUUUIIIUO! UUUIU) UIIULU)MEAT MARKET..A-HSTD ZRETAIXi.Prices paid for Cattle and Hogs.WALKER,FOR THEWA-KEENEY, KANSAS.fc GKRIUVLstock: :F.AJE&:M:i:r5rc3- the basis oif otjs. izrsrrDTrsTiE&iiES.WA-KEEMY,, KATSTSAS,NEWS SUMARY.CONGRESSIONAL.In the Senate March 24, a memorial fromthe Legislature of Arizona, praying for thereturn to the public domain of the landsgranted railroads in the Territory, and forlegislation to prevent organized raids fromMexico, waa referred.The galleries of the 8enate were thencleared and the doors closed. It is supposedthe Weil and Loabera treaty was tben takenup. A large pile of sheepskin covered bookslay upon Morgan's desk, and it-is assumedthat he will consume the day with a speechin favor of the treaty.The discussion was brought to an end bya half hour's speerh by 8enator Vest, in opposition to the treaty. No action was taken.Adjourned.In the Senate, March 25eh, the oath ofomce was administered to Senator-elect Barry, of Arkansas, and the Senate went intoexecutive session and continued the consideration of the Wiel and Loabera treaty. Theconsideration of the Weil and Loabera treaty consumed the day, and was not concluded when the doors reopened and the Senateadjourned.On March 26th the Senate met at noon,and five minutes later went into executivesession.After some further discussion of the Weiland Loabera treaties they were postponeduntil .the next session, when the doors reopened and Senator Sherman's resolution,Ero vicing that a committee of two Senatorse appointed to wait upon the President andinform him if he has no further communication to make the Senate is ready to adjourn, was adopted, and Senators Shermanand Beck were appointed as such committee. Adjourned.On March 27th the Senate met at noonand immediately went into executive session The committee appointed to wait uponthe President reported that they had performed that duty, and the President had expressed the wish that the Senate should remain in session until Thursday.?When the doors reopened the Senate adjourned un'il Monday.On March 30, after reading the journal,the Senate went into executive session, andwhen the doors were opened adjourned.WASHINGTON TOPICS.The Secretary of the Treasury has piepared a circular letter to Collectors of Custom, requesting information as to thepracticibility of reducing the expense ofcollecting revenue from customs by curtailing the present force of clerks and otheremployes.The Minister to Japan has written a letter to Secretary Bayard, expressing thewarmest gratitude of his Government toLucius H. Foote, United States Minister atCorea, for procerting a party pf Japanesesubjects during the recent disturbances inthat country.Edwin W. Keightley, Third Auditor ofthe Treasury, has tendered his resignation.Judge Keightley is a native of Indiana, andwas appointed by President Hayes. Ho isan active politician, and took part in thelast Presidential campaign in the interest ofthe Republican ticket. He resigned at therequest of Secretary Manning.A committee consisting of Joseph Packardand Wm. Winchester, representing the CivilService Reform Association of Maryland,waited on the Secretary, and presented himwith a copy of a resolution adopted by thatAssociation protesting against the appointment of Eugene Higgins as Chief of theTreasury Department. The Secretary promised to give the matter consideration.Revs. Dr. H. R. Naylor, Methodist; W.A. Bartlett, Presbyterian; and W. A. Leonard Episcopal, all ministers of Washington, called upon President Cleveland, andpresented a memorial, earnestly urging himto enforce . the .hdmunds polygamy act.The memorial i6 signed by over 1,000 clergymen and laymen, and the names of someof the most prominent divines in the country are attached to the document. ThePresident said he would give the subjectcareful attention at an early day.Commissioner of Pensions Black has decided that a woman cannot be allowed apension as a dependent mother, and the accrued pension of her deceased husband forthe same time. He says: "Upon carefulconsideration of the laws relating to thesubject, I am of the opinion that whenclaims become united in the same person,making only one beneficiary, that the perBon cannot be allowed, either directly orindirectly, the benefit of two pensions forthe same period of time. Such allowancewould be contrary to the provisions of thestatutes, which declare that pension lawsshall not be constructed so as to allow morethan one pension in the same time to thesame person."POLITICAL AND PERSONAL.The 8t. Louis Democratic City Convention was in session all night, and finallynominated David R. Francis for Mayor.The Republican candidate is W. L. Swing.The Woman's Suffrage party's State Executive Committee of New York, has written a letter to President Cleveland, askingthe removal of Governor Pierce of Dakota,for vetoing tho Wowan Suffrage bill passedby the Legislature.The Arkansas Legislature adjourned sinedie at noon March 27, after a continuoussession of seventy-five days. In the Housea resolution was unanimously adopted expressing profound regret at the dangerousand continued illness of General U. S.urant, and declaring that the members ofthe House extend sincere sympathy 'to thedistinguished citizen and soldier in hisSATURDAY, XAPML 4, 1885.great affliction, and. expressing the hopethat a kind Providence may restore himto perfect health.CKIMES AND CASUALTIES.The Michigan carbon works at Rogers-ville, a suburb of Detroit burned on the27th. The loss will exceed half a milliondollars.The steam boiler in the mill of the Grayton & Pond Lumber Company, in Gray ton,Vt., exploded killing three men and injuring several others, some fatally. The millwas nearly demolished.Haydock's carriage factory, four stories,on St. Charles street, St. Louis, burned atmidnight. The old Congregational church,presided over many years by Dr. Post, wasputted by the fire. Loss unknown. Threefiremen were badly injured.Small-pox is raging as an epidemic inMound City, 111. Oat of a population of1,500 fifty case3 are reported. Eight deathshave occurred during the present week.The disease is confined almost entirelyamong negroes, only two white families being r.fflicted. Vigorous measures are beingmed to suppress the disease.Frank W. Clark, register clerk at theUnion Dep"t Branch postofiice, KansasCity, was arrested recently, charged withrifling numerous registered packages intransit, and was held for a preliminary examination. Clark is a young man, andhas borne a good reputation. He was married but six months ago, and has been living beyond his means.Immense damage was done by the icegorge and overflow at Wayerly Mo. A party went in skiffs, with provisions, to therelie f of those in distress. They found Mrs.Judge Thomas on a hill, where she hadbeen for two days and nights without shelter. They also rescued the Van Meter family from the second story of their house,where they had been for two days withoutfood. A dozen persons and many cattlehave perished and been drowned.There was a dual tragedy recently inStewartsville. Two farmers named Flusehman and Scharndial, between whom a feudexisting of long standing, met in the roadand Fiuschman cracked Scharndial's skullopen with a plow point. Scharndial,thoughwounded unto death, made an onslaughtwith a paring knife and literally cut Fiuschman to pieces. Both were prosperous farmers. A fire broke out in Menypennses' coppershop at the Ohio penitentiary. The building and contents were entirely destroyed.The loss on machinery and stock is between $12,000 and $15,000, and about twothirds is covered by insurance. Seven hundred and fifty thousand cigars, on whichthe State had an attachment for $7,000 wereconsumed. The loss on the cigars is $15,000to $30,000. The State will lose on the building about $10,000.Dispatches from Winnepeg say that it isreported on good authority thatthe Government has received word that the rebels captured Major Crossacre and his force, over100 mounted police, after an engagement inwhich several were killed on both sides.The rebels tried to wreck the train that wascarrying the troops from Winnepeg. Theywere arrested. One of them had dispatchesfrom Riel to the half-beerds around Winnepeg and in Southern Manitoba, urging themto rise.A dispatch from Pierre, D. T., March 25,says : The Indians were at work on theWinnebago Reservation last night, stocksand buildings being burned along Chappelee creek, and the lives of the settlers arethreatened. Major Given telegraphed toPierre for aid, and the sheriff's posse, wellarmed, has gone to the scene of the trouble.Clarence Hinckley defended his house atthe peril of his life, and succeeded in driving the savages off, but will immediatelyhave to leave. Trouble is brewing all overthe reservation. Buffalo Ghost, Spirit-in-the-Middleand Lame-knee are the ringleaders in the insurrection.At Kansas City the jury acquitted OrthStein, formerly city editor of the EveningStar, who shot and killed George .Fredericks, proprietor of a variety theatre in thatcity, in June, 1883. The quarrel arose overStein's attentions to Fredericks' mistress, awoman by the name of Hartline, and endedby the shooling of Fredericks on the stairway, as the two men were leaving the roomlate at night. The woman was the onlywitness to the shooting and testified againstStein. The plea of the defendant was selfdefense. At a former trial he was foundguilty and sentenced to twenty years in thenententiary, but he obtained a new trial,which resulted as above stated.The Buchanan county court house at St.Joseph, Mo., burned on the morning of the28 th. The inside was completely gutted,except the wing containing the offices ofRecorder of Deeds and County Court. Inthe Probate Court and County Collector'soffice all the records and books were destroyed. The records of the Circuit andCounty Courts are safe in the vaults. Thelaw library, valued at $10,000, was a complete loss. The county jail .was saved andthe prisoners removed. The buildings cost$250,000, and were insured for $100,000. W.B. McNutt, chief of the fire department, wasfatally injured.MISCELLANEOUS.The Tennessee Legislature passed abillrepealing the Railroad Commission act.The annual 'reunion of the Arm of thePotomac will take place at Baltimore, lid.,on the 6th and 7th of May.In the United States Circuit Court at St.Louis Judge Brewer granted to the OhioTelegraph Company a writ of mandamusagainst the Bell Telephone Company, compiling the latter to give to the former telephone service.Judge Brewer, of the United States Circuit Court, made an order of sale of theLTiWM:'- js -Vulcan Steel Works, which is under $1,000,000 mortgage, unless cause to the contrary is shown before April 18th, the sale toinclude the right to manufacture the .Bessemer steel rail.D. Caldwell has been appointed receiverof the New York, Chicago & St. Louis or"Nickel Plate" railroad, by Judge Jones,of the Cuyahoga county Common PleasCourt. Suit was entered against the roadby the Union Trust Company, of NewYork, for the second mortgage bonds,amounting to $10,000,000, to foreclose themortgage.Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska stockgrowers all agree that the pas Winter hasbeen the finest for many years for bothrange and trail cattle. The losses will bebelow the average estimated variously atfrom 1 to 5 per cent, the larger portion oftne losses oemg trail cattle, reacning .weranges late in the season.Dispatches from City of Mexico say overtwenty Mexican military officers not inactive service have gone to Central America to join the forces of San Salvador andNicaragua against Guatamala and that thewar feeling is rapidly extending and growing stronger. A large public meeting washeld Thursday night, at which everyspeaker advocated a determined and aggressive action towards Guatamala. An intense feeling of hatred toward Barrios watmanifested, and the meeting was frequently interrupted by cries of "Down with Barrios," "Death to Barrios." It is said thepublic are not adverse to the public agitation against Carrios.FOREIGN.Rebels in the Soudan are cutting the telegraph wires.English soldiers in the Soudan are suffering from sunstrokes.The arms factories at Birmingham, England, are working night and day.The liabilities of Scaramanga & Co., whofailed at London, are placed 1,000,000.The Queen of Great Britain, has calledout the reserve militia for permanent service. Prime Minister Ferry stated that Francewould send further reinforcements to Tonquin. Gladstone announces England's protestagainst the action of France in declaringrice contraband of war.The British, according to latest returns,had 580 men killed and wounded in Sunday's battle near Suakim.It is announced in London that the causefor calling out militia is that Russia has rejected the English proposals.The Lincolnshire handicap race, 1,000 sovereigns, for 3-ycar-olds and upwards, .weswon by H. T. Barclay's Bendigo.It is reported that the portehas asked theadvice of Bismarck in regard to a TurkoRussian alliance against England.Elaborate preparations are being made atKiagstown, Ireland, for the reception of thePrince and Princess of Wales.The Ordnance Department at Chatham,England, has been ordered to ship to Indiaall the Martim-iienry rmes avauaoie.The opinion prevails at Constantinoplethat if car is commenced between Englandand Russia it will extend to the Black Sea.Mayor O'Connor, of Dublin, says thathe flag will be hoisted when the Princetarrives, and that thousands of stalwarthands will be ready to guard it, it necessary. The British Ambassador at 8t. Petersburghas been instructed to press the RussianGovernment for a reply to Gladstone's proposal regarding tho outposts on the Afghanfrontier. ''General Negrier attacked the Chinese atDong Dang, but w-es unable to rout themooneyes, owing to the heavy forces of theenemy. The F-ench report 200 killed andwounded.Mr. Lowell thinks that Mr. Phelps, hissuccessor as the American representativeat the Court of St. James, is an estimableand cultured gentleman, and he regards theselection as a wise one.A destructive fire occurred in Pueblo,Mexico, originating in a gasoline depot nearthe Hotel de la Gencois. A large cigarettefactory, belonging to Jalois Think, was almost entirely destroyed. It is feared thatthirteen employes perished in the flames.The loss is covered by insurance.The Secretary of the Interior has issueda circular that the reform laws must bestrictly observed in the coming Holy Week;that at this period it is the custom in manyvillages near Mexico and other points inthe Republic, to have religious processionsin the streets, and representatives of theten passions of Christ. Tnese spectacles,while imposing to Indians, are visited as anobect of amusement and ridicule by thendncated classes. It is also in direct oddo-sition to the reform laws, which prohibitreligious processions outside of thechurches. 'hhort Biographical Sketches or the Nominees to Foreign Mlsalans.SEX MINISTER TO KUSBIA.Washington, March 30. Alexander E.Lawaon is a prominent lawyer at Savannah. He was educated at West Point,served in the army a number of yearsand resigned to study law at Savannah,and engaged in the practice of his profession there.When the war broke out he enteredthe Confederate service as a brigadiergenera, and subsequently became quarter master general of the- Confederacy.At the close of the war he returned tohis practice at Savannah and soon afterwards was appointed attorney for theSHSyS'SQBWC.3 - f&jh-YrS-il?L-f "i-.. ?-.. J." III I i 111'"'fc2."rO' St fSIHSTG-IiZE COIFY 5 CEUTTS.2TUMBER 6.Central Railroad and Banking companyof Georgia.He is described as a lawyer, of distinction, and a gentleman of quiet and affable manner, the possessor of considerable wealth and about sixty years of ageMINISTER TO ITALY.A. M. Kelly, nominated Minister toItaly, is a lawyer in successful practice atRichmond, Va. He has been Mayor ofthat place, and was for several yearschairman of the Democratic FundersCommittee, taking an active and prominent part in the contest againBt the Readjusters, and is also well'fcnown as oneof the counsel for the Virginia bondholders in their prolonged litigation.MINISTER TO THE NETHERLANDS.Isaac Bell, Jr., nominated for Ministerto the Netherlands, is a wealthy citizenof Newport, R. I., And a prominentDemocrat, and has several times been aDemocratic candidate for Governor, andhe is a brother-in-law of James GordonBennett. He was a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate at thelast Senatorial election.THE CONSUL TO MANCHESTER.Evans H. Howell, of Georgia, nominated for Consul at Manchester, is oneof the editors and proprietors of theAtlanta Constitution, and is a gentlemanof high standing.THE MINISTER TO PORTUGAL.Edward Parker Curtis Lewis, nomineefor the mission to Portugal, is a residentof Hoboken, N. J. He is said to be distantly related to Secretary Bayard, andhas been a member of the Legislature, aPresidential elector and a member ofthe State Democratic Committee.THE MINISTER TO SWEDEN.Rufus Magee, of Indiana, nominatedfor Minister to Sweden and Norway, is aresident pf Logansport, a lawyer, andState Senator, a man of local prominenceas an active politician, and an especialfriend of ex-Senator McDonald, whomhe accompanied recently to this city.THE MINISTER TO DENMARK.Rasmus B. Anderson, of Wisconsin,nominated as Minister resident to Denmark, is a Scandinavian scholar and isthe author of a number of books uponScandinavian, folk lore and mythology.He is a professor in a Wisconsin university, and well known among literarymen.Mr. Anderson is a man of wide influence among the Scandinavians in 'theUnited States and has always taken adeep interest in the promotion of Scandinavian immigration to this country.The nomination is generally regarded asan extremely good one.THE CONSUL GENERAL TO LONDON.Thos. M.Waller, nominated for ConsulGeneral to London, is well known as exGovernor of Connecticut.THE CONSUL GENERAL TO BERLIN.Frederick Rains, of Maryland, thenominee for the Berlin Consul Generalship, is an editorof Baltimore, and correspondent of a German Democratic paper. THE CONSUL GENERAL TO VIENNA.Edmund Jussen, of Illinois, nominated for Consul General to Vienna, iathe leading member of a prominent firmof German-Americans in Chicago. Hehas been somewhat prominent in politics in his State.THE CONSUL TO ATHENS.A. Haller Gross, of Pennsylvania, thenominee for Consul to Athens, is a sonof the eminent surgeon. He has beenlocally prominent in Philadelphia as aDemocrat, and was recently a memberof the City Council.MINISTER TO THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.Geo. W. Merrill, of Nevada, nominatedfor resident Minister to the HawaiianIslands, is a lawyer by profession, but isnow private Secretary to Senator Fair.He is well known here and generally esteemed. THE MINISTER TO BRAZIL.Thos. J. Jarvis has been nominatedMinister to Brazil. He served in theConfederate army, and was Governor ofNorth Carolina for six years.Colored Men's Progresg.Washington Republican.There are 103 colored men in Washington who are worth 125,000 each, fiftytwo worth $10,OOQ.each, and nearly 1,000whopay taxes on 5,000 each. GeorgeW. Williams, ex-member of the Ohio Assembly and author of a history of the .colored race, is worth $40,000. Frederick Douglass has $300,000, and now livesin and owns a house opposite -Washingtonformerly owned by a man who sohated the blacks that he refused to sellanything to one of them. John P.Cooke, Tax Collector of tne District ofColumbia, himself pays taxes on $250,-000. JohnM. Langston, United StatesMinister to Hayti, has $75,000. JohnLynch, of Mississippi, who presided soably at the Chicago Convention lastSummer, is very wealthy. So is Congressman Smalls. Dr.Glosterleft$l,000,000 when he died, and has a son-in-lawworth $150,000, beside a four-story drugstore in New York.Emporia Bepublican: The basket socialgiven by the ladies of the First Congregational chnrch at the residence of Mrs.P. B, Plumb was well attended and afinancial success. The evening was mostenjoyably passed, the ladies of the congregation moving among the guests withthat hospitality that made everyone present feel at home. Mrs. P. B. Plumb hasproven herself an admirable hostess.CJt -Lmi21'i5?I -.,, ?4fVafrSK?tewa&L49Afk?sr'4 -Jtwwpfwi-'"11j -